The ages of us children range from 3 to 11, with the very young ones attending a morning or afternoon Nursery and the rest of us in classes from the Reception (nearly 5 years old) to year 6 (10 and 11 year olds).
Our School was built nearly 100 years ago in the East of Ipswich, the major town in the English county of Suffolk. A county in England is like a State in the USA. There are 46 counties in England, compared to 50 States in America.
Morland Primary is situated on a large estate with the names of roads being taken from old English painters like Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph William Mallord Turner, John Sell Cotman, Peter Paul Ruebens and, of course, George Morland who our school is named after.
About 10 years ago, our school had a lot of work done to it to modernise the classrooms and the environment around. We are lucky as our playground overlooks the River Orwell which is the river that serves Ipswich. Ipswich is a port and a number of medium size vessels sail into it everyday, delivering containers of goods from Asia, wood and petrol (gas in the USA).
The adults at the school are teachers, sports trainers, teaching assistants, dinner ladies (lunch-time supervisors), cooks and cleaners and we are really just one big team.
At school there are 16 lunch-time and after school clubs such as dance, drama, boy's football (soccer), girls football (soccer), gymnastics, breakfast club, computer club, golf, netball and many more.
We have just develpoped a wildlife garden with a very large pond as well as an 'allotment', a place where each class can grow vegetables and fruit which is used in the school kitchen. We also have our own kitchen where we learn to cook and learn everything about food hygeine and health and safety.
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